The tab for Bush’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently
$277 Billion and counting.[Washington Post, 1/26/05]

Bush’s plans in Iraq call for troops to be in the Middle
East for years.Armed Forces
specialists plan on keeping 120,000 American soldiers deployed in Iraq until at
least 2006. [Washington Post, 1/25/05]

The President says that he will honor our veterans.Meanwhile, according to The Washington
Post, 300,000 veterans are still waiting for necessary health care
treatment. [Washington Post, 10/3/04]

While advocating the need to create economic opportunity for
all, President Bush has presided over an economic record that includes the loss
of over a million jobs since he took office. [Bureau of Labor Statistics]

President Bush will hail his own commitment to creating
opportunity for Americans, but the legacy of his first term is that 4.3 million
more Americans are now in poverty.[Census Bureau, Current
Population Survey]

Bush’s most recent
budget passed by Congress fell $9.8 billion short of Bush’s commitment to reform
America’s schools. Overall, the Republicans have fallen $27 billion short of
the funding for local schools promised in the No Child Left Behind Act. [House
Democratic Leader’s Office, 1/7/05]

ABANDONING OUR
NATION’S HEALTH

The President’s repeated commitments to health care are
simply more lip service.Rather than
reducing the number of people without coverage during his first term, 5.2
million more people are uninsured today than in 2000. [Census Bureau, Current Population Survey]